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Uncontrolled Vocabulary #38 – Sandy Berman gone bad
By Greg | April 17, 2008
Uncontrolled Vocabulary #38 is now available for download. Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
You can subscribe to the podcast (as well as this blog) via the following feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/uncontrolledvocabulary
A million thanks to Mary Carmen Chimato for taking over the show this week. As you’ll hear, she did a fantastic job in my stead.
On the call:
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Anna Creech, University of Richmond
Stephen Kellat, Host, LISTen, the LISNews.org podcast
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Links to the show topics:
1. Response to the show and the greening of CiL from Jane Dysart
Comment from Jill O’Neill
2. Oregon: our laws are copyrighted and you can’t publish them (Boing Boing)
Related documents (Scribd)
3. Publishers Sue Georgia State on Digital Reading Matter (New York Times)
4. The state of libraries: Funding down, but gaming up as way to attract young people (International Herald Tribune)
Does Gaming Promote Reading? (The Shifted Librarian)
Chiming in On the Biggies (The Other Librarian)
5. War Declared on Library of Congress by Venezuela (Friends of Cuban Libraries)
6. Blogs May Be Rendered Obsolete by New Technology (Chronicle of Higher Education)
An argument against Shyftr and communities built around full-text RSS feeds (Online Media Cultist)
Topics: Episodes | 3 Comments »
April 18th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
My Canadian-born cataloging professor always said “The Library of Congress is the library of YOUR Congress.” Simply put, LC collects, catalogs, and creates subject headings for what Congress is interested. Really it’s a library for 535 elected representatives and their staffs. Something to remember whether your at the Anytown, USA Public Library or if your Hugo Chavez.
April 19th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
[...] to help you examine the story about Venezuela and the Library of Congress that was discussed in Uncontrolled Vocabulary #38, I could point you in the direction of the EB article on the Library of Congress or the article on [...]
April 20th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Yeah, Liam, absolutely. I think that pretty fairly echoes the perspective of the people on the call. Thanks for listening and for commenting.